Cloud Computing: Looking back to move forward
May 16, 2014
Grazed from FCW. Author: Alistair Mitchell.
Three years ago Vivek Kundra unveiled the Federal Cloud Computing Strategy. The strategy set out to transform the government’s existing IT environment, which was "characterized by low asset utilization, a fragmented demand for resources, duplicative systems, environments which are difficult to manage and long procurement lead times." Cloud computing would be the change agent and transform federal IT for the better.
With Kundra estimating 25 percent of the government’s $80 billion annual IT spend could be migrated to cloud computing services, it would only be a matter of time before agencies could reap the rewards of the cloud’s key benefits: efficiency, agility and innovation. To accelerate cloud computing adoption, the cloud-first policy was instituted to ensure cloud services were evaluated prior to any new IT investments being made…
The cloud-first policy set out a practical vision for how the U.S. government could deliver more value for the same dollars spent and drive innovation. It heralded a new era in government IT and set a shining example for governments worldwide. The UK followed suit last year and mandated that central government departments must examine whether innovative cloud technologies could be deployed before any other new IT solutions were adopted…
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